"Everyone from the Po Jun Academy delegation, you've had a long journey back. You must be exhausted. Still, we've been waiting for you for quite some time."
As everyone looked upon the miserable state of Po Jun Academy, a thin man dressed as a clown stepped forward from among the six people opposite them and greeted the group.
"You're Hiraga Reisen from Wenqu Academy." Seeing his attire, Toudou Touka immediately recalled who he was. He had been listed among this year's Seven Star Sword Dance Festival contestants. Of course, all of that was a disguise; Nagi Arisuin had already told them all the information about Akatsuki Academy.
Naturally, the information Nagi Arisuin had provided was incomplete. For example, he had not revealed the clown man's true identity. However, that was not his fault, because he did not know the clown man's real identity either. Although they belonged to the same underground criminal organization, the organization was enormous and divided into numerous factions. It was only natural that he would be unaware of certain information.
"Were you the ones who did all this?" Toudou Touka continued.
"To be precise, Akatsuki Academy did this." The clown man—Hiraga Reisen—turned to look at his companions before answering Toudou Touka's question. They were the eighth Magic knight school, though its student body consisted of only the few of them.
"Big brother." Kurogane Ikki looked at Kurogane Ouma across from him and called out.
"Shut up. I severed all ties with the Kurogane family long ago. Don't call me so familiarly," Kurogane Ouma snapped.
It had to be said that Kurogane Ikki's father, Kurogane Gen, was remarkably good at raising children. His two sons and one daughter all rejected the Kurogane family. Kurogane Ouma was different from Kurogane Ikki. He had been born an A-rank knight